From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Cezar Halmagean Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs vs. TextMate (not trying to start an editor war) Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:21:23 -0700 Message-ID: <15662.7719560221$1215743188@news.gmane.org> References: <47107.6355003335$1215674200@news.gmane.org> <87fxqh34jk.fsf@edna.homeunix.org> <877ibt33p4.fsf@edna.homeunix.org> <8763rdqopj.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1215743135 16917 80.91.229.12 (11 Jul 2008 02:25:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:25:35 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 11 04:26:22 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KH8L0-0001ce-Ff for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 04:26:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40919 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KH8K8-00046l-Q3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:25:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KH8Jo-00044w-55 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:25:08 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KH8Jm-00042l-IW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:25:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37648 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KH8Jm-00042e-DM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:25:06 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:38753 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KH8Jm-0001ZL-2c for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:25:06 -0400 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KH8Ji-00049i-ET for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:25:02 +0000 Original-Received: from c-76-21-40-194.hsd1.ca.comcast.net ([76.21.40.194]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:25:02 +0000 Original-Received: from cezar by c-76-21-40-194.hsd1.ca.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:25:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-76-21-40-194.hsd1.ca.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:YWhW7Tii87ENJ0RJFjEEXx8pPUQ= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:55412 Archived-At: Miles Bader writes: > AIUI, textmate's internal engine was written specifically to support this > kind of nested mode well, so it's not surprising that it does so. Emacs > does not have this sort of special support. > > So if you compare them in that specific case, textmate looks pretty > good. However it's far from clear that textmate would fare as well in a > more general comparison. > > -Miles This is what I keep hearing about Emacs, how it would take a complete rewrite to support that. Is that true ? Or what is the *thing* missing in Emacs that makes it so hard to make it a top web dev IDE/editor. Cezar